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Russia: Turkey-Russia relations, not yet business as usual – Medvedev
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05.07.2016
Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev stated that Moscow has not “made any decisions” concerning the resumption of Turkish vegetable imports, during a visit to the Matveevskoe agricultural enterprise in Moscow Region on Tuesday.
Medvedev said that “the only decision that has been made concerns tourist destinations,” in reference to the decision to again allow Russians to travel directly to Turkey. The Prime Minister also stated that “we will discuss it with our Turkish partners. But it does not mean that we immediately run to open everything.”
Bilateral ties between Russia and Turkey had deteriorated since the downing of the Russian Sukhoi Su-24 aircraft by Turkey on the Syrian border last year. One pilot, Oleg Peshkov, was killed in the incident, and a marine, Alexander Pozynich, was subsequently killed during a failed rescue mission.
On June 27, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he apologized for the incident and expressed his hopes that Russian-Turkish relations could be normalised.
Medvedev said that “the only decision that has been made concerns tourist destinations,” in reference to the decision to again allow Russians to travel directly to Turkey. The Prime Minister also stated that “we will discuss it with our Turkish partners. But it does not mean that we immediately run to open everything.”
Bilateral ties between Russia and Turkey had deteriorated since the downing of the Russian Sukhoi Su-24 aircraft by Turkey on the Syrian border last year. One pilot, Oleg Peshkov, was killed in the incident, and a marine, Alexander Pozynich, was subsequently killed during a failed rescue mission.
On June 27, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he apologized for the incident and expressed his hopes that Russian-Turkish relations could be normalised.
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